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Macey's body was discovered after Jackson called paramedics last October, saying her daughter had stopped breathing.

The defendant, of Packett Street, consistently claimed Macey had died in a co-sleeping tragedy and denied murder.

But she dramatically changed her plea to guilty on the fifth day of her trial.

Cody-Anne Jackson was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court

Stafford Crown Court heard Jackson killed Macey just days after the toddler's dad had moved out.

She then harmed herself with two kitchen knives, tried to overdose on migraine tablets and wrote a suicide note as Macey lay dead in a bedroom.

Two pathologists had given evidence that Macey was most likely to have died after being smothered or having pressure applied to her neck.

Sentencing Jackson to life in prison with a minimum term of 16 years, Judge Michael Chambers said: "For a mother to kill her very young child who depends on her for protection above all others is a wicked and appalling act."

Cody-Anne Jackson has been jailed for life after murdering her daughter